Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers. The 2021-22 session began in late January. Expect COVID-19 and the ongoing...
Getting rid of the county pistol permit process that has a well documented racist history should be the first step by the General Assembly.
Democrats want these voters heading into the polls thinking about COVID-19 and health care. The GOP would rather see them thinking about economic recovery and public safety.
Letting politicians choose their voters rather than letting voters choose their political representatives is incompatible with basic principles of conservative governance.
History suggests the 2018 congressional elections won’t be kind to Republicans. In half of the eight midterms since 1986, the party occupying the White House lost majority control of the Senate. In only two House off-year elections since 1934 has the president’s party enjoyed net seat gains — in 1998, when voters were reacting to GOP efforts to continue with...
Before several thousand backers at the Duplin County Events Center late Tuesday afternoon, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pledged, if elected, to remove from Washington the influence of “the global special interests seeking to run our lives,” for whom Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is “the vessel.” The address was Trump’s second in North Carolina that...
Here in North Carolina, the political discourse has all too often devolved into partisan cheerleading, shouting matches, and online snark.
The whole truth often ends up missing in action in today's mainstream media reports.
The American electorate is looking for someone who is true to himself or herself and has the courage of their own convictions.
The Elon University poll leans slightly Democratic while the High Point University poll is among the few with no partisan bias at all.
INDIAN TRAIL — When Indian Trail Councilman David Waddell chose to submit his resignation from the council in Klingon — the fictional language of the aliens from the “Star Trek” franchise — it was just one of many unusual things going on in the bedroom community near Charlotte.
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